On Wednesday, February 7, 2018, Laravel 5.6, was released to the public. It's a major release to the most popular PHP framework on GitHub as of this writing. Furthermore, Spark 6.0 was also released alongside Laravel 5.6. According to the policy laid down by the Taylor and the core team, major Laravel framework releases are released every six months (February and August).
In this article, I'll cover the new features in Laravel 5.6 and several other changes and deprecations.
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Laravel 5.7 is also out now. It has a lot of great features. Here is a list of new features that this new version has to offer
Resources Directory Changes
Laravel Dump Server
Email Verification
Laravel Nova
Guest User Gates / Policies
URL Generator & Callable Syntax
Paginator Links
Notification Localization
Improved Error Messages
Testing Artisan Commands